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This is a quick easy cake to make. Make sure you make it early if baking in the evening as it takes two hours to bake and you could find yourself up very late waiting for it to come out of the oven as I found out!!

Ingredients
•1kg mixed dried fruit (raisins, sultanas, currants, cherries, cranberries, prunes or figs.
• zest and juice of 1 🍊
• zest and juice of 1 🍋
•150ml Brandy or Sherry, Whisky or Rum
250g pack of butter
200g light soft brown sugar
175g plain flour
100g ground almonds
1/2 tsp baking powder
2tsp mixed spice
1tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground cloves
100g flaked almonds
4 large eggs
1tsp vanilla essence

Method
1. Put 1kg of mixed dried fruit, the zest and juice of the orange and lemon, 150ml Brandy, 250g butter and 200g light brown sugar into a large pan on a medium heat.

2. Bring it to the boil, lower the heat and simmer for 5 minutes. Tip the mixture into a bowl and leave to cool for 30mins.

3. Heat oven to 150C. Line a deep 20cm cake tin with a double layer of baking parchment.

4. Add 175g plain flour
100g ground almonds
1/2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp mixed spice
1 tsp ground cinnamon
11/2 tsp ground cloves
4 large eggs
1tsp vanilla extract

5. Stir well and tip into prepared tin and bake for 2 hours.

6. Remove from oven, poke holes in with a skewer and spoon over 2tsp of chosen alcohol. Leave cake to completely cool in tin.

7. Store cake wrapped in cling film. Feed 1-2 tbsp every 14 days. Do not feed the week before icing.